Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sociology

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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology: edit · history · watch · refresh
  1. Populate Category:Wikipedians interested in sociology and Category:WikiProject Sociology
  2. Refactor Project page and create subpages
  3. Create Template:User Sociology
  4. Draft first issue of Sociology Project News
  5. Review List of sociology topics and begin Organizing it
  6. Look for FAs, GAs, FLs and FPs in above list
  7. Begin Assessment for above per WP:1
  8. Begin compiling content for The Sociology Portal
  9. Finish cleanup of Category:Sociology

Although having been out of the field for a while now, does one ever lose the "sociological perspective"? Where I am able, I will strive to add content to and help organize some Sociology pages, starting with the Sociology of deviance page and pages to which it links. I am new at Wikipedia, so please bear with me. --JimCollaborator 18:23, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Sounds good! I think you'll find articles on the humanities in general and on sociological topics in general are quite lacking. I'm still working towards my BA so my knowledge of specific topics in the field is still somewhat limited, so it's nice to see a veteran helping to contribute. Ironically enough, in the articles pertaining to sociology it tends to be individuals who make the biggest difference. Sarge Baldy 19:58, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the support! I have to ask if you know Prof. Mark Edwards at OSU (I think he's still there). We went to grad school together at UW. (sorry, I would have put this on your User talk page, but it's so organized, and I'm so new, that I didn't know where to put it). --JimCollaborator 20:58, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
I haven't actually, although I know his name. I believe he's on sabbatical this year. As for managing people's text pages, use the + button to the right of edit and it'll format everything for you automatically. Sarge Baldy 06:31, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Improvement Drive

Cultural appropriation has just been nominated on WP:IDRIVE. Public education and Flirting as well as Teenage pregnancy are also currently nominated on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive and may be of interest to you. If you are interested in contributing, please vote or comment here: This week's improvement drive--Fenice 09:23, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Science pearls

Hello, Please notice this project. I hope that the List of publications in sociology will be adopted by the sociology project. Thanks,APH 06:56, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement drive

Meditation is currently nominated on WP:IDRIVE. If you want to see it improved and could help us bring it up to featured standard, please vote for it here! --Fenice 09:00, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Strategies for improvement

I'm ready to sink my teeth into this project. I've been working on our "child" project WikiProject Community for some time now and I've learnt some things that can help. I've started the /Organization subpage for parsing the List of sociology topics. Compare it with the List of community topics and follow the breadcrumbs. CQ 03:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Great job on revitalizing the project, I will be happy to chip in and help a little!-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus  talk  15:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] General user survery

I think some of the members of our project may be interested in studying, well, ourselves - from the sociological perspective :) See meta:General User Survey, which desperatly needs some help to get started - and every day it is not means loss of sociological data for us all :( -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus  talk  15:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I filled out one of the first drafts of the GUS Questionaire exactly a year ago — m:User:Quinobi/Questionaire. CQ 02:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
PS: Check out Communitas! • 21:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the Month - August 2006

Any ideas? CQ 21:01, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anthropology wikiproject?

I just made a proposal for an anthropology wikiproject on the "list of proposed wikiprojects" page. If you're interested, you can sign up at our entry and on the temporary project page. Thanks. Ungovernable ForceThe Wiki Kitchen! 21:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Homelessness

I've added this article to the "articles needing work" because while excellent in many ways it needs a. an outside view, and b. possibly protection from the partisan. Regards, Rich Farmbrough 17:33 26 August 2006 (GMT)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 20:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review request - Gun violence in the United States

Lately, I have been working on criminology topics which is an area that Wikipedia sorely lacks. Last weekend, I discovered there was no article on "Gun violence", so started one. Most of the research literature pertains to the United States, so the article has become Gun violence in the United States. Obviously, people have strong POV on this topic. To try and rise above politics, I have only included the highest quality reliable sources (mainly peer reviewed, scholarly journals). Personally, I really don't have a POV on this topic, and am staying out of the Gun politics in the United States article. With the gun violence article, I have stayed with presenting the current state of research on this topic. I think is close to featured status, though some "gun rights" folks have already come along and place a neutrality tag on the article. I could really use some peer review on the article, at this point. Do you at all agree with the person who placed the neutrality tag? Any suggestions on making in more NPOV. In reality, I feel that the article deals fairly with both POVs, citing strategies advocated by gun-control folks as ineffective, while citing some strategies advocated by the Bush administration as effective. Do you have any suggestions on improving the article? are there aspects of the topic that are missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have filed a formal peer request here, though feel free to leave comments on the article talk page if you prefer. Thanks. --Aude (talk) 18:39, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

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